Posted on 07/22/2012 9:00:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Every American student who's taken a civic class has heard Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s admonition that free speech under the US Constitution doesn't give you the right to shout "fire" in a crowded theater.
So the right to bear arms under the 2nd amendment - - written at a time when citizen militias might be needed to fend off the British or a foreign power intent on undermining the new Republic - - shouldn't mean someone has the right to barge into a crowded theater, open fire and slaughter people with powerful guns and ammunition obtained legally.
Yet we have allowed the NRA and allied wealthy conservative organizations with political and electoral agendas to distort legitimate gun ownership for hunting purposes into gun ownership without effective controls that jeopardizes public safety.
Bill Moyers has an eloquent essay about this, here.
The proof is the disproportionate share of the industrialized world's gun violence that afflicts the US, year-in and year-out.
These massacres bring concern for victims, but no remedial controls: the Aurora shootings came but five years after a higher death toll in a mass shooting at Virginia Tech, and Colorado did not toughen its gun laws after the Columbine school killings not far from Aurora...
(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...
Unless posted, you can in IN
Unless posted, you can in IN
Unless posted, you can in IN
Boy, you can say TAHT again!
The laws of concealed carry vary from state to state but where I live can not carry into a business that the primary product is alcohol but its funny in IN u can carry but in Illinois u can’t even carry
The laws of concealed carry vary from state to state but where I live can not carry into a business that the primary product is alcohol but its funny in IN u can carry but in Illinois u can’t even carry
The laws of concealed carry vary from state to state but where I live can not carry into a business that the primary product is alcohol but its funny in IN u can carry in a bar but in Illinois u can’t even carry
It’s a Barroom Blitz!
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